Amateur Radio Newsline(tm) Report 1801 - February
17 2012
Amateur Radio Newsline report number 1801 with a
release date of February 17th, 2012 to follow in
5-4-3-2-1.
The following is a QST. WRC 2012 ends and ham
radio get a new 600 meter allocation. Also, the
2 Gigahertz band comes under attack in Sweden;
ham radio gets an exclusion from a proposed
Illinois distracted driving law; a high altitude
ham radio balloon heading from Texas to China
disappears over the Gulf of Mexico and spray on
antennas become a reality. All this and more on
Amateur Radio NewslineT report number 1801
coming your way right now.
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RADIO LAW: WARC 2012 ENDS - THE OUTCOME FOR HAM
RADIO
The 2012 World Radiocommunications Conference,
better known as WRC 12 has come to a close.
Bill Pasternak, WA6ITF, is in the Newsroom with
some good news for ham radio:
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At its Plenary meeting held on February 14th,
the World Radiocommunication Conference approved
a new secondary frequency allocation to the
Amateur Radio Service from 472 to 479 kHz.
Having passed its First and Second Readings it
is normally a formality that this change be
included in the conferences Final Acts when the
gathering concludes and the Table of Frequency
Allocations would then be amended accordingly.
As a secondary user, amateur radio shares 472 to
479 kHz with the Maritime Mobile Service which
is the primary user in all three ITU Regions and
with the Aeronautical Radionavigation Service
which is a Secondary user except as noted in the
following footnotes:
One footnote reads that a number of countries
will identify their intent to elevate the status
of their Aeronautical Radionavigation Service to
Primary as a step in ensuring protection from
secondary users.
Also there is a footnote that says that the
power which radio amateurs may use in 472 to 479
kHz will be limited to 5 watts effective
radiated except for amateur stations within 800
km of the borders of a number of countries.
These are principally Russia, many of the former
Soviet bloc nations and the Arab states. For
those affected amateurs the power output limit
will be 1 watt.
It is, of course, up to individual
administrations to authorize use of the band by
their amateurs. How long it will before the
band is available to hams in the United States?
That's up to the bureaucrats in Washington D.C..
At this point that is unknown.
For the Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Bill
Pasternak, WA6ITF, in the Newsroom in Los
Angeles.
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The new band at 600 meters will represent the
return of amateurs to the medium waves. This is
an area of spectrum that hams have not had
access to since the earliest days of radio
regulation. More on WRC 12 in future Amateur
Radio Newsline reports. (RAC)
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RESTRUCTURING: SSA SAYS HAM RADIO AND BROADBAND
CAN SHARE 13 CM
The 13 centimeter ham band is under threat of
reallocation in Sweden. This as that nations
Telecommunications regulator the Department of
Post and Telecommunications has suggested that
the 2300 to 2450 MHz spectrum be transferred for
use by broadband systems. Amateur Radio
Newsline's Heather Butera-Howell, KB3TZD, is
here with the details:
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As part of the rule making process the Swedish
national amateur radio society, the SSA, has
submitted it's response to Sweden's
telecommunications regulator on this matter. In
it, the SSA argues that the nations amateur
service should remain in the 2.3 GHz band and if
needed share this spectrum with any other users.
SSA notes that wideband digital systems are
becoming less sensitive to narrowband signals.
This it says improves the possibilities for such
a form of band sharing arrangement.
Among its position points the SSA believes that
communication with amateur satellites in the
band from 2400 to 2450 MHz should continue to be
permitted.
The SSA is also requesting a meeting with the
Department of Post and Telecommunications to
discuss the technological basis for continuing
the amateur service in the this band.
For the Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Heather
Butera-Howell, KB3TZD, near Pittsburg, PA.
--
More on the amateur radio response to the
proposed reallocation translated into Google
English is on-line at
tnyurl.com/SSA2300MHzResponse (Southgate, SSA)
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RADIO SCIENCE: COMMUNICATIONS LOST WITH BLT-28
TEXAS TO CHINA HAM RADIO BALLOON
Communications with a high altitude amateur
radio floating balloon that was launched from
Texas with a final goal of reaching Nanjing
China has been lost. BLT-28 transmitting
callsign KT5TK-11 on APRS was lost at 00:50
hours UTC on February 12th. This was only 3
hours after the balloon was lofted skyward from
Katy, Texas, just west of the city of Houston.
Signals were lost when the balloon was passing
through the 45,700 feet over the Gulf of Mexico
about 110 miles south of Holly Beach, Louisiana.
This was possibly the coldest part
of the journey to that time with the last
telemetry reporting a temperature of -50
degrees Celsius.
There is some speculation that the lack of
signals from the balloon may have been caused
by the batteries freezing up. There is some
hope that a so-called watchdog circuit will
keep the electronics package alive until the
batteries have rejuvenated, if they ever do.
There was some hope that BLT-28 may have
actually crossed the Atlantic Ocean sometime
Monday morning, February 13th, but that has yet
to be confirmed either visually or by a
resumption of electronic tracking. If the APRS
transponder does return to life, it should be
transmitting on 144.800 MHz and will eventually
appear on various world wide APRS tracking
websites such as aprs.fi.
BLT-28 was the latest in a long series of high
altitude ham radio balloon launches sponsored
South Texas Balloon Launch Team. Their website
is in cyberspace at www.w5acm.net.
(ARNewslineT, Southgate, WB5ITT)
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RADIO LAW: ILLINOIS DISTRACTED DRIVING LAW
WONT AFFECT HAM RADIO
Amateur radio as well as 11 Meter CB and
several other services have won a complete
exemption from a proposed Illinois state law
aimed at curtailing the activities of
distracted drivers on that states roads and
streets. Amateur Radio Newsline's Matthew
Chambers, NR0Q, has this follow-up report:
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There were actually two proposed measures
before the Illinois state legislature aimed at
accomplishing the same thing. As originally
written, both House Bill 3972 introduced by
Representative John D'Amico and House Bill 3970
by Representative Karen May would have banned
the use of all electronic communication devices
with a very few limited exceptions. These were
the use of two-way radio by law-enforcement and
operators of emergency vehicles; cellphones
used in a hands-free or voice-activated mode or
in parked vehicles. And that was it.
Now, after consultation with representatives of
the Illinois ham radio community, Representative
D'Amico has amended his proposal to exclude
numerous types of two-way radio based
communications from his measure. This, while
leaving the original intent of the proposed law
aimed which is primeraly aimed at curtailing
texting or using a hand-held cellular telephone
while ta vehicle is in motion.
Item 7 of the Amended D'Amico measure is the part
that's important to the ham radio community. It
states that a driver using two-way or citizens
band radio services or twoway mobile radio
transmitter or receivers for licensees of the
Federal Communications Commission in the Amateur
Radio Service are exempt from the proposed law.
And that's good news for anyone with radio gear
in their car driving in or through the state of
Illinois.
For the Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Matthew
Chambers, NR0Q, reporting.
--
While this still leaves House Bill 3970 by
Representative Karen May as active as originally
written, it's believed that this measure will
shortly be amended to follow the House Bill 3970,
if this has not taken place already.
(ARNewslineT, others)
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BREAKING DX NEWS: LONG AWAITED VK0HI HEARD
ISLAND OPERATION CANCELLED
Jim Linton, VK3PC, reports that Chris
Dimitrijevic, VK3FY, has announced the permanent
cancellation of the 2013 VK0HI Heard Island
DXpedition. Linton notes that VK3FY was also the
team leader of the cancelled DX0DX Spratly
Islands DXpedition. VK3PC was serving as the
Publicist for the Heard Island 2013 DXpedition.
More DX information later on in this weeks
Amateur Radio Newsline report. (VK3PC)
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BREAK 1
From the United States of America, We are the
Amateur Radio Newsline, heard on bulletin
stations around the world including the W8HVG
repeater serving Southern Michigan.
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WITH NEWSLINE: OUR NEW WEBSITE
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new look is now on-line and fully operational.
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very front page as an ongoing audio and text
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Please check www.arnewsline.org and let us know
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RADIO LAW: FCC SAYS IT WILL SEEK TO CANCEL
LIGHTSQUARED PROPOSED BROADBAND NETWORK
The Federal Communications Commission says that
it will seek public comment on revoking
LightSquared's permit to build a proposed
national high-speed wireless data network. This,
after concluding that such a system held the
potential in some cases jam personal navigation
and other Global Positioning System or GPS
devices.
According to news reports, the FCC had seen
LightSquared's proposal as a way to make more
spectrum available to feed the need of the public
and industry for added broadband capability for a
wide variety of fixed and mobile devices. But the
manufacturers of GPS receivers and those who rely
on them feared that GPS signals would suffer from
adjacent spectrum interference caused by the
proposed LightSquared network.
As previously reported here on Newsline, after
conducting tests, the National Telecommunications
and Information Administration said that it found
interference with dozens of personal navigation
devices and aircraft control systems that rely on
GPS for positioning. The NTIA concluded that
there's no way to eliminate the risk of
interference with such GPS devices.
As we go to air, LightSquared, which is based in
Reston, Virginia, had not made any comment to the
press on this latest development.
(PC World Blog, Yahoo News, Bloomberg News,
others)
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ENFORCEMENT: FCC REDUCES STUDIO TO TRANSMITTER
LINK FINE BY $800
The FCC has reduced a fine for Gila Electronics
that was based on a studio-to-transmitter link
violation two years ago. Amateur Radio
Newsline's Jim Davis, W2JKD, reports:
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During a September 2009 inspection of KUKY - FM
located in Wellton, Arizona, agents discovered
what appeared to be a 950 MHz Studio to
Transmitter or S-T-L that was relaying KUKY
programming's main studio in Yuma to its
transmitter site near Wellton.
Gila provided the agents with a copy of the
license for the relay station which authorized
operation on 956.65 MHz as a Private Operational
Fixed Point-to-Point Microwave radio station.
The licensed location was listed as Telegraph
Pass, Arizona near Wellton but the microwave
station was installed at the KUKY studio in Yuma,
about 15 miles from the licensed location.
In January 2010, the San Diego Office issued a
Notice of Apparent Liability for Forfeiture for
$4,000 to Gila for failing to operate the relay
at its authorized location and for providing a
private carrier service not in accordance with
the rules applicable to its particular radio
service.
In its response, Gila had not disputed the facts.
However it asked for a reduction because it said
there were no interference reports from other
licensees nor any substantial potential for
interference to other users. This based on the
sparsely populated desert terrain.
But the FCC was not persuaded by this argument.
It noted that the absence of public harm is not
considered a mitigating factor in a rule
violation. However, the agency did give Gila a
break based on the company's past good behavior,
noting that the company has not received a prior
violation during its more than 20 year history.
That's why it cut the fine by $800.
I'm Jim Davis, W2JKD.
--
Gila was given the customary 30 days to pay the
fine or to file a further appeal. (FCC)
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PUBLIC SERVICE: HAMS NEEDED FOR BOSTON MARATHON
COMMUNICATIONS
Bob DeMattia, K1IW, of the Marathon Amateur Radio
Communications group tells Amateur Radio Newsline
that his organization is still looking for
approximately fifty more volunteers. This, to
help on the ham radio team at the Boston
Marathon.
This years run takes place on Monday, April 16th.
Bob says that positions are available in
Hopkinton, along the route, and in Boston itself.
If you are a ham living in that area or plan to
be at the event, and if you are interested in
volunteering, please visit marc.mmra.org on the
World-WideWeb.(K1IW)
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RADIO READING: BAY AREA RADIO
Arcadia Publishing is set to release "Bay Area
Radio," detailing the key events and history of
radio in the San Francisco Bay Area. The book
highlights some of the area's early events,
including Charles "Doc" Herrold's broadcasts in
1909 from his radio school in San Jose to a young
NBC settling its West Coast headquarters in 1926.
"Bay Area Radio" was written by noted radio
historian John F. Schneider with assistance from
the California Historical Radio Society and the
Bay Area Radio Museum. It goes on sale March 5.
(RW)
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RADIO READING: A DOT OF BUTTER AND A DASH OF
SPICE FIELD DAY COOKBOOK
And "A Dot of Butter and a Dash of Spice" is a
new cookbook dedicated to Field Day culinary
delights from UK amateur Steve Norman, M0MVB. In
explaining his new work Norman says
that as we all need to eat, he has combined his
love of doing field day and of food by writing a
BBQ cook book aimed at the ham radio operator.
"A Dot of Butter and a Dash of Spice" contains
over 100 recipes as well as covering what is the
best BBQ to take on field days and loads of other
help. Priced at œ9.99 British Pounds or $15.75 US
dollars, it can be ordered on-line in the United
State from Amazon.com and other booksellers.
(M0MVB)
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NAMES IN THE NEWS: N6SL SAYS QCWA 40 METER CW
NET SPPED LOWERED TO 15 WPM
Some names in the news. First up is Ben Russell,
N6SL. He says via the Quarter Century Wireless
Association's remailer that to encourage more
participation the 40 meter QCWA 40 Meter CW Net
hat the code speed has been reduced to
approximately 15 words per minute. Russell, who
is the Net Control Station, says that this net
meets every Wednesday evening at 8 PM Eastern
Time on 7 point 035 MHz +/- any QRM. Anyone
interested in QCWA and its activities is invited
to take part. (N6SL via QCWA Remailer)
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NAMES IN THE NEWS: JIM LAPORTA, N1CC, NAMED NEW
QCWA GENERAL MANAGER
Jim LaPorta, N1CC, of Marbank, Texas, has been
selected as the new General Manager of the
Quarter Century Wireless Association. He will
assume the position on or about March 26th.
LaPorta replaces Chuck Walbridge, K1IGD, who will
be terminating his current contract as General
Manager on March 31st after seven years in that
position. (N0UF)
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HAM HAPPENINGS: HAPPY 5th BIRTHDAY TO
REC.RADIO.AMATEUR.MODERATED
And a big happy birthday shout-out to the
rec.radio.amateur.moderated Usenet newsgroup
which will be five years old this month.
The group was founded on February 22, 2007. It
was created as a moderated alternative to the
chaotic problems on many of the un-moderated
newsgroups of the time. Since then it has become
a model that other hobby radio Newsgroups are
attempting to emulate.
If you haven't participated on Usenet in a while
you might want to take a look at
rec.radio.amateur.moderated. Its quite a bit
more mature than other hobby groups in the Usenet
genre.
As an aside, Amateur Radio Newsline has been
distributed on rec.radio.amateur.moderated almost
since that Newsgroup was formed and we hope that
we helped in some way in the group's long term
success. (ARNewslineT)
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HAM HAPPENINGS: SARL LEAP YEAR CHALLENGE
Hams are invited to take part in the South Africa
Radio
League-sponsored Leap Year Challenge on Wednesday
February 29th. The challenge starts at 00:01 and
ends at 23:59 South Africa Time. Modes
acceptable include phone, CW and digital activity
on all bands including HF, VHF, UHF and
microwaves.
The objective is simply to make as many contacts
as you can on this day. The rules permit you to
work a station once only regardless of band, mode
or call sign.
Logs go by e-mail to zs4bfn (at) netactive (dot)
co (dot) za and must be received by midnight
Friday March 2nd, 2012. A South Africa Radio
League membership is up for grabs for the log
received with the most QSO's made.
Also this reminder: If you do not take part, you
will have to wait until 2016 to put the date
February 29th into your logbook! (SARL)
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BREAK 2
This is ham radio news for today's radio amateur.
From the United States of America, We are the
Amateur Radio Newsline with links to the world
from our only official website at
www.arnewsline.org and being relayed by the
volunteer services of the following radio
amateur:
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EMERGING TECHNOLOGY: A SPRAY-ON ANTENNA
Ever found yourself without a signal and wished
you could just spray one on like magic? Soon, you
may be able to do just that. Michael Grebert,
N4OZ is here with more:
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Chamtech Enterprises, of Sandy, Utah, has
developed a sprayon antenna material that it says
is more lightweight and energy efficient than
current technology.
Revealed at Google's inaugural "Solve for X"
symposium, the company says than an antenna can
be painted onto almost any surface including
trees, walls and even on fabrics.
Chamtech says that it is already talking with
governmentbased customers, and as such can't give
too much detail on how it works. However it has
released information that its material uses
organic elements that have the ability to
interact with magnetic and radio-frequency
fields.
The company's Chief Technology Officer is Rhett
Spencer. Spencer is quoted as saying the antenna
could increase mobile energy efficiency by 10
percent. Also that it was found to work
particularly well under water. Observers at
the event say that being organic could make it
ideal for subaquatic telecommunications
infrastructure.
Prelimnary tests on current a generation cell
phone showed that the product was able to boost
signals by an impressive 20 dbm when painted over
the standard internal antenna.
From our point of view, for ham radio operators
living in
antenna restricted areas such as apartments or
condominiums, the possibilities of a product
such as this could be endless. All a ham might
need is a bit of imagination and some of the
spray-on antenna paint to get on the air with a
signal much stronger than from the rubber duckie
on his or her HT.
For the Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Michael
Grebert, N4OZ, not far from Music City,
Nashville, Tennessee.
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For more information about the Chamtech spray-on
antenna material you can take your web browser
to www.chamtechops.com. A video with a talk
about the technology involved is on-line at
tinyurl.com/spray-onantenna. (N4OZ, FutureTech)
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HAM RADIO IN SPACE: ESA FIRST VEGA LAUNCH A
SUCCESS
The maiden voyage of the European Space Agency's
new Vega launch vehicle has successfully lofted
a research satellite along with eight student
built microsats into space.
The first Vega launch took place from the ESA
spaceport in Korou, French Guiana at 10:00 UTC
on Monday, February 13th. The primary payload
was the Italian Space Agency's Laser Relativity
Spacecraft. Its primary mission is the
measurement of the Lense-Thirring effect, also
known as frame-dragging. The satellite may also
be used for measurements in the fields of
Geodynamics and Satellite geodesy.
The secondary payload of the eight student-built
MicroSats will transmit telemetry in the VHF,
UHF and microwave amateur bands. One of the
tiny birds named PW-Sat includes a voice
repeater in addition to its telemetry
transponder. Its uplink is at 435.020 MHz with
its downlink at145.900 MHz. PW-Sat sends its
telemetry using1200 baud packet as well as CW on
435.020 MHz. (ESA, AMSAT)
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RADIO IN SPACE: RUSSIA SAYS RADIATION CAUSED
PHOBOS-GRUNT FAILURE
Russia is blaming solar radiation for a computer
glitch that doomed its Phobos-Grunt Mars moon
mission, but space industry experts cast doubt
on the findings of an investigation into the
crash of what was to be Moscow's first deep
space mission in two decades. Amateur Radio
Newsline's Cheryl Lasek, K9BIK, reports:
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The Phobos-Grunt spacecraft was stranded in
Earth orbit after launch in November and crashed
into the Pacific Ocean in January. Russian
Space Agency Chief Vladimir Popovkin said that
in the opinion of the commission, the most
likely reason for the mishap was the local
impact of heavily charged space particles that
led to a failure in the memory of the main
onboard computer in the second stage of flight.
Popovkin went on to say that foreign-made
counterfeit or
defective microchips were partly to blame for
the failure of the $165-million spacecraft,
designed to retrieve soil samples from the
Martian moon Phobos. He said that a burst of
space radiation caused the onboard computers to
reboot and go into standby mode.
But others doubt this to be the case. Rather
experts on spaceflight say that Moscow was
blaming external factors for the loss of its
ambitious Mars mission to distract from chronic
failings with its once-pioneering industry.
Alexander Zakharov, was the mission's lead
scientist. He has been quoted as saying that
even if this was the true which cannot be
completely ruled out because it does happen,
then there is some kind of problem with the
flight system or the programming, which were not
designed to guard against space radiation.
Another space industry source said potentially
damaging bursts of radiation were highly
unlikely in low-Earth orbit, where hundreds of
satellites circle within the protective bubble
of the planet's magnetic field.
But Russia's State News Agency has cited an
industry source of its own. That unnamed source
inferred that the critics are incorrect saying
it was absurd to think that the PhobosGrunt had
not been made to withstand cosmic rays on its
two year interplanetary mission.
For the Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Cheryl
Lasek, K9BIK, in Zion, Illinois.
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The failure of the Phobos-Grunt spacecraft to
leave Earth orbit was the latest in a series of
mishaps that have plagued Russua's spavce
program the past year. (Various published news
reports)
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WORLDBEAT: RADIO AUSTRALIA MAY BE BACK ON THE
AIR FROM FIJI
Radio Australia may broadcast again from Fiji.
Andy Sennit reports via the Media Network blog
that Fiji's coup installed military government
has signaled it is looking at allowing Radio
Australia to broadcast inside the country again.
Power to the two transmitters, one in Nadi and
the other in Suva, was switched off by the
interim government in 2009, three years after
the 2006 coup led by military commander Frank
Bainimarama. But Fiji's permanent secretary of
information, Sharon Smith Johns told Pacific
Beat's Geraldine Coutts that she is looking at
reversing the policy.
(Media Network)
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DX
In DX, Albania will be on the air during the
2012 CQ WPX SSB Contest. This with word that
TA1HZ will operate from that nation as ZA1TC for
the period of March 23rd to the 26th that
includes the contest weekend. During his spare
time
outside the contest he will try to work some
PSK31, especially on 30m band. Details and QSL
info is on www.qrz.com.
Lastly, HA5PP will be active from Malta as 9H3PP
on May 26th and 27th during the CQ W W WPX CW
Contest as a SingleOperator Single-Band entry.
Activity outside of the contest will be on 6 and
12 meters, and possibly s 17 meters as well. QSL
via HA5PP.
(Above from various DX news sources)
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THAT FINAL ITEM: COORDINATING THE SUPERBOWL
And finally this week, a tale of frequency
coordination to the stars. Not the stars in the
sky but those on the football field at this
years Superbowl. It's also the story of the
part played in the process by a number of
Hoosier state radio amateurs. Here's Jack
Parker, W8ISH:
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INDY SUPER BOWL HAMS
Actuality Audio: "Check one two three four.This
is about a team an organization.I've just gone
from hotel to stadium..It was a great experience
oversall."
--
From mic checks to Manning to Madonna to the man
on the street the airwaves around downtown
Indianapolis were full of frequencies from over
3500 hundred transmitters. For two weeks prior
to Super Bowl 46, and through the game itself,
hundreds of radio and television stations were
vying for radio spectrum in their efforts to
cover the greatest show in professional
football.
Keeping interference to a minimum is the job of
the Super Bowl Frequency Coordination Committee.
It is a team of 46 six, including 17 Amateur
Radio operators from central Indiana. Their
mission was to log, tag and tune all wireless
transmitters from broadcast media from around
the world.
As Super Bowl Sunday approached the job of
preventing interference became a super task.
The Indianapolis Super Bowl village, Lucas Oil
Stadium and major hotels are located in a one
mile square area. According to one volunteer,
that is a lot of RF in a small area.
According to organizers the area of frequency
control was expanded on game day stretching out
about 30 miles into the suburbs of central
Indiana.
The bottom line for all this effort, was to make
sure the radio transmitters to each quarterback
on the field was interference free throughout
Super Bowl 46.
--
Actuality Audio: "Check one two..two..everyones
good."
--
Reporting from Indianapolis, I'm Jack Parker,
W8ISH.
--
Radio frequency coordination has become an
important part of many broadcast sports, but few
other than the Olympics require the amount of
spectrum as does the Superbowl each year.
(W8ISH)
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